And that was a great thing about England games. You just didn’t get the chance to see these players otherwise. I saw Brazil and when they came out in their kit it was magical.
We still booed their anthem mind.
Respect for venturing out in that. Strange for Div 2 clubs that don’t have the facilities for promotion, but Upper Beeding are an important part of the local football scene.
I was going to post - my memory was we lost …….. but you’re correct we won.
Lots of home games late 70s early 80s. Cheap night out. Just rock up if you fancied it. I loved seeing the opposition stars, and of course our players in an age when not a lot of live football was on the box.
Wembley...
Really? They did look good particularly going forward. Difficult to make sense of a first friendly, but promising on the pitch from the Barrowmen. Work also being done off the pitch for new changing rooms and hospitality etc (needed whatever division we’re in).
We’re at the Brunswick in the evening seeing Lucy Pickering doing a Joni Mitchell type evening. Then C4 (the BBC are too right of centre for me these days). Enjoy it everyone!
I went to the Dome for at least one of the elections in 1974. It was a brilliant partisan atmosphere with the National Front in attendance. Plus ca change. We saw the local results come in so it must have been late. They had big screens showing National results coming in - so series of...
Harry Shooman has also moved back to Whitehawk (from Steyning) - such a lovely player. He’s got the lot. Combined with being a really friendly bloke. Good luck.
I gave it a go about a decade ago - I got to the chapter written in styles of English over the centuries and thought life was too short.
A while later I half listened on Audible, then bought myself a lovely hardback copy with a clear font and gave it another go.
It’s the book I most listen...
Happy Bloomsday all.
James Joyce was a genius. Ulysses is not an easy read (obviously) but all life is there. And as in life the more you put in, the more you get out.
Listen to the RTE version, available as a podcast. It’s brilliant. Listen to the Shakespeare & Co analysis (I’m not such a...